The Truth about Romanticism: Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

by Tim Milnes

How have our conceptions of truth been shaped by romantic literature? This question lies at the heart of this examination of the concept of truth both in romantic writing and in modern criticism. The romantic idea of truth has long been depicted as aesthetic, imaginative, and ideal. Tim Milnes challenges this picture, demonstrating a pragmatic strain in the writing of Keats, Shelley and Coleridge in particular, that bears a close resemblance to the theories of modern pragmatist thinkers such as Donald Davidson and Jürgen Habermas. Romantic pragmatism, Milnes argues, was in turn influenced by recent developments within linguistic empiricism. This book will be of interest to readers of romantic literature, but also to philosophers, literary theorists, and intellectual historians.

Genres: Philosophy

268 pages, Paperback

First published May 23, 2010

About the author

Tim Milnes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He previously held posts at University College, Oxford, and Christ Church University College, Canterbury. He has published widely on Romanticism and philosophy, and is the author of The Truth about Romanticism: Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge (CUP, 2010), Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (CUP, 2003), and William Wordsworth: The Prelude (Palgrave, 2009). His is also the co-editor of Romanticism, Sincerity, and Authenticity (Palgrave, 2010).

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[MeiMeiSam · Rating 4 out of 5]

While everything is just a transcendental apparition from a core of nothingness which is empty but the 'I' is just a content stuff to make the objective to take the position of subjective so that things appear menaingful as stuff that we can perceive with its concept. Things and 'I' appear as conceptual stuff but they cooperate to unite into a propositional stuff as an objective like an urn to contain the wholenesss as a kind of truth. The truth is insidious in the normality which plays the role in shrouding the hidden from our sight so that our consciousness will be able to run under the atmosphere of our ideal. History has shown a variety of these to remind us of the truth hidden inside the normality might have played an enormous role in instigating a certain circumstance. In History, the critical people who instigated a certain segment of millenium would have been resided in a situation led to the outburst of a certain event caused of the proposition of spatial displacement meant to be governed by the temporal spot as to be called an temporal mystified attractor. The attractor governs the spatial dispalcement so as to have a oscillation onto the historical flimsy 2D plane where everything has to be happened as a kind of apparition.
Why we have taken the urn of truth as truth? The urn is just a conceptual proposition which we conceive it, as its original emptiness is a place to contrast with the conceptual 'I'. The urn is a mystification of united consciousness both the cosmological consciousness and the minority consciousness have to be obedient onto it.